Bruce Thayre wrote: > Hi Matthias, > Ah I see, I guess I shouldn't mix bash notation when asking about a > command I run in a shell. So what you recommend is exactly what I've > been doing. Assume my router is MyRouter.domain, and the client behind > the router is MyClient. In MyClient's respective config file I have: > $Conf{ClientNameAlias} = 'MyRouter.domain'; > > When I run the command: > > sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump -f -v MyClient > > I get the output: > > Name server doesn't know about MyClient; trying NetBios > cmdSystemOrEval: about to system /usr/bin/nmblookup MyClient > cmdSystemOrEval: finished: got output querying MyClient on > 111.222.111.222 name_query failed to find name MyClient > > NetBiosHostIPFind: couldn't find IP address for host MyClient > host not found > > So what's going on is despite having the ClientNameAlias set, > backuppc assumes the hostname is a netbios name. Strangely enough the > ip address that it dumps out is on my subnet, but is not actually in > use. I've set the backup method as rsyncd, so I would think backuppc > would not use any netbios/samba related stuff. I've also tried using my > router's ip address just in case I was having DNS problems, but I see > the exact same behavior. Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for the > patience. > Thanks, > Bruce
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